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Wednesday, October 12, 2011

October Indie Cover Art Poll

Vote for your favourite and be put in a draw where you can win 16 e-books! One book from each of the authors who participate and one from me, the host of the poll. You can only choose 1 cover as your favourite and you can only get a single entry, no matter how many times you comment.

The winner will be announced on October the 15 and entries will be taken until noon on the 15th.

The winning cover art will then be displayed on all the other author’s blogs who have participated this month for a minimum of 1 blog post.

If you’d like to have your cover art involved in the November Indie Cover Art Poll, send the cover, a short blurb and one link to motionsrider@yahoo.ca

Jacob and Noah Garrett are brothers harbouring a lifelong resentment towards each other while dealing with their own compulsive obsessions. One is a liberal gay man who forsakes his family and moves to New York City from Tennessee to make his mark on the world.
The other is a southern conservative who is left at home holding the proverbial family bag. The story follows their loosely intertwined lives through the wild times of the late seventies and the restraint of the Reagan years in which one brother ends up becoming a minister and preaching his doctrine while the other believes there are some things people are born with and not meant to change.
Well with My Soul deals with themes of sexuality, religion, and addiction and is told through the perspective of both brothers showing how misguided choices can drastically affect those around you for years to come. (#2)
More about this book and author click here

"In stories of rugged roads, hopes, pleasures and dreams, The Chakra Diaries weaves 10 people's lives together in a work of art for the heart. It's New Age fiction you'll want to read for its wisdom as much as for its drama, passion, sensuality and humour." ~ Marya Mann, PhD, Brave New Viewsletter (#3)

In this sequel to The Chosen, the Chosen and their Guardians find themselves thrust into a whirlwind adventure spanning multiple planets.

The inhabitants of Astra have been terrorized by a madman, the peaceful Jhinn of planet Earth have been taken by their enemies, four more of the Chosen are killed, and the Mekans have divided their forces and have landed on both Volgon and Astra.

Can the Chosen find a way to work through their differences and defeat their common enemy? (#4)

While two women vie for his heart, a hunt for killers thrusts Jake Driver into a life and death battle with a brutal drug gang, and into the cross hairs of a ruthless archenemy he pursued a generation ago.

As he sails to and from the Caribbean, Jake’s two worlds collide: one, the violent and dangerous thrill ride he mounts when he serves his country as a federal agent, the other, a realm of love, sex and poignant storybook endings he creates in romance novels.

A dangerous operative and hopeless romantic, Jake has issues to resolve before he can commit to any one woman. (#5)

Sigrid and Suko are two girls from the impoverished and crime-infested streets of 24th century Earth. Sold into slavery to save their families from financial ruin, the girls are forced to live out their lives in service to the Kimura Corporation, a prestigious mercenary clan with a lineage stretching back long before the formation of the Federated Corporations.

Known only to Kimura, the two girls share startling secret—a rare genetic structure not found in tens of millions of other girls.

But when their secret becomes known, Sigrid and Suko quickly find themselves at the center of a struggle for power. Now, hunted by men who would seek to control them, Sigrid and Suko are forced to fight for their own survival, and for the freedom of the girls from Alcyone.(#6)
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Conservatively raised Catholic, Lisa, at age thirteen, would suddenly find herself on a totally different path. Through an unlikely chance meeting of a fellow classmate, she would soon find herself innocently taking their relationship to a foreign level neither saw coming...finding out what they are made of as they face the consequences and struggles that come along with going against the grain.

Told in a raw, honest format, this memoir will stay with you long after the last word is read, haunting you with one question: How can loving someone ever be wrong? (#7)

Unburdened by the pain of loss and heartbreak, Mikhail is content with his life of solitude. But everything began to change the day he realised he has a psychic ability -- the power to alter the emotions of those around him.

Mikhail is ushered into the Military Academy with others like him -- other Daevas -- where he does his part to help tip the scales of war against the vampires that destroyed the world and plague what remains of humanity. But after going up against his first vampire, Mikhail starts to question everything he thought to be true.

To discover the truth and expose the lies he once believed, Mikhail will set out on a journey of discovery, and learn some things about himself in the process. (#8)

Seven Point Eight: The most powerful number in the universe, the number that connects everything.

Be prepared for a journey that draws together fringe science, psychedelic research, psychic powers, alternate dimensions, consciousness, mysticism, time travel, past lives, miracles, folklore, conspiracy and nostalgia in a soap opera for the soul.

‘The First Chronicle’ lays the groundwork and sweeps through the 40s, 50s and 60s to modern day in a wild nostalgic, scientific, paranormal ride. (#10)

CIA Special Ops Team, Call Sign: Wrecking Crew is sent overseas on a Top Secret mission. Once the mission is completed, they rapidly realize they are merely Pawns in an International Chess Game that turns into a Political Firestorm.

As a result, they are disavowed. Accompanied by Firefights, Fate, and Faith, they finally find a way home. After arriving, they discover governmental abuses of the Constitution.

Will they survive long enough to thwart these enemies of the State? (#11)

Martian Divides picks up the Martian Symbiont story two years after the end of Martian Blues. The Martians who returned to Earth hundreds of years ago finally found human women who were compatible with them and their telepathic symbiont. With the additional issue of defending Earth from hostile aliens now resolved, the Martians decide it's safe to return to their one true passion: space travel. Only one group of beings can threaten their plans.

Angry that most other people now carry the alien telepathic life form, the underground insists that what's left of real humanity is in danger. They believe Martian influence on society puts them at a disadvantage, so they set out to prove their humanity still has a voice. When they attack a Martian, the resulting mental shock wave has consequences felt around the world. (#12)

The heroes of New Olympus are back in a new, modern mythological romp! When young people start disappearing from the streets of New Olympus, Detective Theseus is on the case – even if no one wants him on it. The Heroes Union has expelled him, the NOPD has suspended him, and his ex-fiancée may want him dead, but Theseus is determined to get to the bottom of this mystery.

To do so, he’ll have to deal with a family of serial killers, centaur wedding crashers, a reclusive inventor, his father’s new girlfriend, and more. The truth behind the disappearances lies in the center of a labyrinthine maze and it’s being guarded by a monstrous horned creature – and it’s hungry.(#13)

Adam O’Brien closed his eyes to go to sleep. When he woke four days later his world was gone. He was alone. His parents had disappeared. The gaping wound on his head and the scratches on his arms were the only testimony to a tragic horror.

Waking in a room of luxury that seemed familiar he was greeted by Nicolas, a friendly stranger, who provided him a haven to rest and recuperate. It was not long before Adam realized something was very wrong and all that was held true was a lie. An unnatural presence lurked in the shadows, a force as strong as the devil.

As Nicolas slowly offers Adam the answers he desperately seeks and reveals an unspeakable crime, Adam comes to understand that he is connected to a family cursed for thousands of years, born to bear a burden even they don’t understand.(#14)

I love lots of these covers, lots of great composition to the images, but for me, speaking as a person who earns their crust from telling stories with pictures, I'd have to go with number 4 ; "Shattered Destiny". I like it because not only does it have great composition like some of the rest, but the perspective really drives home the size of the machine like monstrosity bearing down on who I suspect are the heroes. Also, from an artistic point of view, this is the only cover which has that renaissance style of creating subliminal triangles within a drawing. Whether this is on purpose or an inherent skill that the artist possesses I don't know, but having worked on some 400 film and tv productions and having directed photography for the Discovery Channel I know talent when I see it. Nice work everybody, and especially the guy/girl who did the artwork for "Shattered Destiny".

all of them are great in their own way, however my fave was number 6 (the girls from acy)i looked at the covers before reading the blurb, and this one i would have most likely bought the book with that cover.

My absolute favorite is #9: Being Human, it is what I would pick up *first* in a bookstore between these 15 choices. All of them look amazing, and there are 4 others that I really wish I could have chosen as well. In the end, my choice came down to what looked completely finished, wasn't too busy, used respectable and attractive fonts, and made me want to read the actual novel this minute. All of the artists should be extremely proud of the work they put in front of us, and all the authors wrote what sound like interesting and captivating reads.

This is so hard to choose from, between Dawn of Darkness & Being Human - I think these are the top 2 covers without a doubt!! But I will have to go with my heart & pick Dawn of Darkness.fauthc@tpg.com.au